Hegel’s “dialectic logic,” while the necessary base for his own metaphysic, for the Marxist interpretation of history, for all process philosophies and theologies, and for an influential death-of-God position (Altizer), is really no “logic” at all.

I think your second sentence is what is meant. The first interpretation, while possible in theory, strikes me as unnatural. If the writer had meant it in that sense, (s)he would probably have written the sentence differently, e.g. "... his own metaphysic, is really no logic at all for the Marxist ...".

It has been suggested several times that unverified entries older than two years should be deleted. I have always opposed doing this automatically, but now I want to "clear my desk" and I have begun on all sites where I have worked to revoke my votes on old, disputed entries and to self-delete my old entries that have two votes or none, or where disagreements are so profound that there seems no hope of resolution.

I agree with parker and sfl. I think it would be a shame to get rid of all that work. It's possible that some of them may be wrong, but they have their unverified status to warn people about that. Catesse, you do a lot of hard work for the dict, and I think it would be a shame to undo it because some of it might be wrong or imperfect or is contentious.

There is only one on EN-DE, a few French and one or two Dutch. They are almost all Polish, and although a few new contributors have turned up, these two sites are virtually wrecked anyway.
PS: Example: I asked a question on DE-PL in September last year. No response at all. On two sites that I joined a few weeks ago, you get and answer in one to 12 hours. Now, where would you rather be?

Not sure I understand this fully. I added an outside approving agent to the first part of the sentence with my zuzustehen. The whole sentence seems to make more sense that way. The 'better case can be made' is lost in your suggestion. It makes the muss a little less peremptory.

Sounds OK to me, Schandor. I'm sure you're right on the zuzugestehen. I had zustehen (entitled) on my mind. I understood the "unique to it" as a world created entirely by an epistemology for the purpose of proving their premises. A bit like homeopathy, which attempts to prove the most preposterous claims by creating a world of their own.

I finished some learning about main german dialects, 7 of them, and from what i understood, basically, there is a different word for standard language word, different pronunciation rules and there is different grammar stuff. To summarize, a headache.

I was wondering, because i don't have real world "German" experience, what is the worst case scenario when you come to Germany with decent standard language knowledge? Can you come to region where people don't even know how to speak standard dialect, or don't want to? And what is the best case scenario - are there Germans who just deal with standard language throughout their lives? What are the statistics and interesting stuff about dialects? And for the end - are switches hard, or easier when you have a foundation of standard language, because when learning something, sometimes is not good that you first have to unlearn a rule in place of a different one...

I don't think I found anyone in Germany who couldn't understand my high German. I sometimes found people who I found hard to understand. Generally, if they wanted me to understand them, they would find a way of speaking that I could follow. If they didn't want me to understand them, then that was a different matter (and not necessarily anything to do with their ability to speak high German). Luckily, I didn't find many people who didn't want me to understand them.
I've spent a lot less time in German-speaking Switzerland than in Germany, but everyone I spoke to there was able to speak high German to me - just with a different accent from German German and some different word choices. If you're used to German German, Swiss high German may take a little time to acclimatise to, but it's nothing to be scared of.

Plattdüütsch and Boarisch seem to me more diverse than Spanish and Catalan.

Newscasters speak High German. Most people who think they are speaking High German in reality speak some form of regiolect. People who can speak dialect usually do that when speaking to their neighbors. In rural areas you may still find people who only speak and understand their local dialect.

it's also an age thing. Older people are more likely to speak dialect, younger people tend to speak something akin to Hochdeutsch. But everybody will speak clearly once they realise they speak to a non-native, see also lifo 15:00.